Portal:Multilingual Studies

Wikiversity Institute for Multilingual Studies

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Division news

22 October 2006 - Division founded!
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Multilingualism Practicum

The Multilingualism Practicum began as a Multilingual worksheet which was simply a listing of popular languages and some rudimentary aspects of translation. As the page and its associated discussion grew, it became clear that the multilingual aspects of Wikiversity are very complex and could benefit from a holistic approach to the topic.

Multilingual Studies was formed to host a Practicum to organize a set of learning paths that span several schools and disciplines rooted in Foreign Language Learning, but designed to lead learners to a broad array of other fields of the Practical Arts and Sciences.

Collaborations

The practicum includes many interdisciplinary studies across a broad spectrum. The Interlingual Beta Club was proposed to propogate the practicum's ideas and manage several inter-school collaborations:

Language and Literature

Language and Literature - Find translations of some well-known literary works and present them on special pages for comparative study.

Suggested samples:

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Linguistics

Linguistics - Study the mechanics of language comparing similarities and differences. Study and work on organizing Category:Languages and Language families.

Media Studies

Media Studies - Work on multilingual versions of Wikiversity the Movie.

Develop audio and other media to aid in Foreign Language Learning.

Computer Science

Computer Science - Get into Computational linguistics to learn about machine translation, Computer-assisted translation and other computer applications that help with translation, Foreign Language Learning and in sorting and understanding Languages and Language families.

Subdivisions and Departments

Use the Template:Subdivision boilerplate and [[Topic:[Name of department]]] to start a subdivision.

Translation Taskforce

The {{translators}} template is adaptation of m:Category:Translator's Templates. As you can see, it is quite scaled down at this time:

Translation	Wikiversity translators Translation Dept. - Multilingual Studies
German {{deu}}	German-English {{Translator deu-eng}}	German-Spanish {{Translator deu-spa}}
English {{eng}}	English-German {{Translator eng-deu}}	English-Spanish {{Translator eng-spa}}
Spanish {{spa}}	Spanish-German {{Translator spa-deu}}	Spanish-English {{Translator spa-eng}}

Planned comparative articles:

Active participants

The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this division, you can list your name here (this can help small divisions grow and the participants communicate better; for large divisions a list of active participants is not needed).

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